I was on-line earlier and started thinking of those fairy tales books from school. They were the 1st books you READ after clearing flash-cards. Anyway, having lots if 'search' words I went on Google. 3rd entry was this film Fairy Tales. Briefly, I saw what it was about, sniggered then decided to write this review. PS If you have seen this film & recommend it, let me know.Thanks.

I regrettably saw this movie back to back with the German film "Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults" and while both films are obviously "for adults", the former actually managed to capture some of the spirit of the original Grimm's Fairy Tales while this film is your typically smutty, painfully unfunny, and crassly stupid "parody" of the already highly bastardized American versions of the classic fairy tales (with a little Mother Goose thrown in for good measure). For instance, in this movie the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe (Brenda Fogerty) is a madam, her shoe naturally is a cathouse, and there is a stereotypical 70's black pimp (Sy Richardson). "Snow White", of course, is getting it on with her seven dwarfs (for all you people out there with dwarf fetishes). "Little Bo Peep" has lost her sheep, and apparently her underwear too. Perhaps worst of all, this movie follows the unfortunate 70's trend of being an annoying musical (i.e. "Alice in Wonderland", "The First Nudie Musical") because, of course, there's a great intersection of musical fans and softcore porn fans.But let me focus on the positive (what little there is). There is a very early if mostly wasted appearance by a young Linnaea Quigley (who gets naked natch'). Evelyn Guerrero, who had a memorable role in "Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams", has a cameo role (with full-frontal nudity) as one of the "S and M Dancers". And perhaps most memorable is Tai Bonet as "Schrenednaze" (from "Arabian Nights") doing a naked belly dance (for some reason for Mother Goose's "Old King Cole") while rubbing oil all over herself. You just don't see naked belly dancing everyday. But is any of this worth enduring the rest of this movie? Uh, no. Watch "Grimm's Fairy Tale for Adults" instead

Charles Band strikes gloriously ridiculous schlock movie fool's gold with this giddy, bawdy, cheerfully lewd, crude and rude vaudeville revue-style soft-core sex musical comedy send-up of beloved Mother Goose nursery rhyme characters who are tossed smack dab into the middle of a gratuitous nudity-packed, sex-ridden, scuzzy pun-laden low-budget nice'n'naughty goofathon loaded with wink-wink, nudge-nudge hammy acting, pretty girls frequently shedding their scanty apparel, cheesy Cole Porter-type song-and-dance numbers, leering double entendres, grotesquely drawn black, homosexual and sexually deviant characters, semi-explicit simulated sex, dirty jokes about erections and voyeurism, and an ingratiatingly good-natured sense of aim-for-the-groin lowbrow high school locker room humor.A jaded prince (pudgey, homely, acne-scarred dork Don Sparks), rendered impotent by having made love to too many castle babes, has to immediately find that certain special fair maiden who will arouse him in order to produce an heir and rightfully assume his natural role as king. So Prince Plug-Ugly Clod goes roving the countryside in search of his elusive alluring queen and has bizarre encounters with a motley assortment of mugging, freaked-out, libidinous oddballs. The Little Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe (vampy Brenda Fogarty) is the madam of a bordello. "Repo Man" 's Sy Richardson, carrying on like he's in a way soulful blaxploitation picture, does his flippy jive-a** thing as Sirus, a preening, flamboyant pimp with an over-sized bright red codpiece. "Professor" Irwin Corey contributes a typically over-the-top turn as a manic, wheezing, profanity-spewing sex expert doctor. Snow White (luscious dish Annie Gaybis) participates in lively group sex with the lascivious seven dwarfs. Little Bo Peep (gorgeous buxom blonde honey Angela Aames) not only loses her sheep, but also her clothes as she squeaks out a dreadful tune in a grating, high-pitched adenoidal voice before falling out of her flimsy dress and revealing her bountiful breasts. Cuddly unclad imp Lindsay Freeman pops up as the insatiable Jill, who can't get mincing gay Jack to make love to her.Robert Staats as gabby smarmy doorman Little Tommy Tucker, Angelo Rossitto as a lecherous midget lawman, and Bob Leslie as randy Old King Cole devour the cheap forest scenery with lip-smacking uninhibited aplomb. Juicy Ida Tripoldi fails to turn on the prince as a delicious naked chick birthday present. Delectably voluptuous belly dancer Nai Bonet shakes her fleshy, undulating body and pours glistening oil on her shapely buttocks while shaking it to a grinding disco beat. Marita Ditmar and future "Dallas" cast member Evelyn Guerrero, wearing just leather S&M masks, engage in an absurdly campy dungeon-set chains'n'whips "beat me because it feels so good" number. A fresh out of high school Linnea Quigley, looking incredibly cute and prior to her substantial 80's scream queen fame, gets the prince's motor running as the yummy, untainted Sleeping Beauty.Director Harry Tampa, working from a gleefully coarse, filthy-minded, resolutely vulgar and unsophisticated script by Frank Ray Perilli and Franne Schacht (they also wrote "Laserblast" for Band), keeps the tone unremittingly smutty, yet light-hearted throughout, while cinematographer Daniel Pearl blinds the audience with lots of chintzy vertical wipes and dissolves and composer Andrew Belling and lyricist Lee Arries deliver the dopey goods with such choice sleazy songs as "Been A Virgin Too Long" and a kinky bondage-and-discipline-themed variant on the classic rhythm-and-blues ditty "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar." Trandscendently tacky stuff.

Nudity in a movie can be mere eye candy, no different to looking at the images on one of the magnificent ceilings painted by artists such as Fragonard, or it can be presented with a sexual significance. It can be shown in various ways, as a totally natural incident appropriate to the scene being sceened, as pure fun, as erotic stimulation, as downright dirty comedy, or as explicit sex - although this is generally regarded as making the film pornographic. It can also be presented musically, and with so many possibilities it is hardly surprising that many filmgoers will enjoy some, but not all, of these forms of presentation. All such material will however usually result in the film in question being classified as for adult viewers only. Back in the 1970's three films incorporating such material were released under titles commonly associated with children's literature. These were "Alice in Wonderland" (1976), "Cinderella" (1977) and "Fairy Tales" (1979). It is therefore particularly important that reviews of these films should make their contents quite clear, as there are reported to have been instances of video hire firms who were sued by irate parents inadvertently borrowing these films for their offspring's entertainment. Both Cinderella and Fairy Story have been released through the same distributors (Astral) and can best be described as musical comedies for adults which makes liberal use of nudity in fun sequences; they do not fall into the dirty comedy category and, since many of the songs are more humorous and less suggestive than those often encountered in music videos, they are not likely to offend many of the viewers who know what to expect. Some of those who have commented on these films in the Imdb data base have expressed a preference for Cinderella, but I personally preferred Fairy Tales. Both these films are very similar in style, and choosing one in preference to the other is essentially a matter of taste. My preference is largely based on the impression that Fairy Story provides more variety, with new characters drawn from classic children's stories appearing at regular intervals throughout the film. By contrast the story of Cinderella is very well known and even when retold in adult form some of the element of surprise, which is important for films of this type, is lost. The music and songs in both films are excellent and are such fun that it would be hard not to enjoy them, a sequence in Fairy Tales where Snow White is set upon by her seven little dwarfs is particularly enjoyable (probably it could not even be filmed today as the Society of Dwarfs, or some similar body, might protest forcibly about unflattering representation of those handicapped individuals which it represents), and the presentation of the house in a shoe as the local house of ill fame, with Robert Staats as a copybook ponce, is hilarious. Ultimately I usually find that the success of a film of this type is assured whenever it is very clear that all the cast had a whale of a good time whilst creating it. This is certainly the case here, and I have no hesitation in strongly recommending this film to anyone interested in seeing it. For a film of its genre I would rate it at 9 out of 10.